Bug#343667: eclipse: Help->Help Contents launches external browser

[Michael Koch]

tag 343667 confirmed
thanks

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:40:35AM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Package: eclipse
> Version: 3.1.1-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> if I'm not mistaken the help system should work such that opening the
> help opens a view with an embedded gecko-browser. However choosing
> Help->Help Contents launches a full firefox here. Opening the Help View
> manually works however.
> 
> If the behaviour is indeed correct and I'm just stupid to think that
> Help->Help Contents launches the Help-View instead of an external
> browser, please immediately close this bug report.
> 
> Hmm, looking through the preferences I do see that I cannot choose to
> use the "internal web browser", maybe that's related?

Yes, I can confirm this. Seems to be a bug in handling the setting of
the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable. I will investigate this
more.


Cheers,
Michael
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